our front yard?

There was just enough daylight left after waking up to take a short hike out back on Chad’s family’s property.

His folks are working on acquiring another chunk of land adjacent to their existing property – so we went fantasy home-site scouting.

We’re all pretty much sold on the “idea” of establishing a secondary residence in the mountains where we could spend part of the year, and the rest of the time in St. Louis.

“Idea” indeed.. A lot of “ifs” are in the mix there:
“If” – we could find a decent plot of land…. or
“If” – Chad’s suspicion is correct that they’d be willing to sell us a few acres of it. or…
“If” – I’m able to stir up some accounts in Pittsburgh.
“If” – etc.

Nonetheless – it was fun to hike around the mountain top and dream. It’s good to always have some sort of loose plan for the future… something to work towards.

We found the perfect site. A crest with terrific views just before the land drops off into the valley below, accented by huge exposed rocks and natural caves.

Can’t blog now – gotta fire up Illustrator and start sketching out our poor-man’s Falling Water.